Picture this: you’re with friends in an unfamiliar forest using only a map and a compass to guide you to an upcoming checkpoint. There are no cell phones or GPS gadgets to help, just good old ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It's just nice to be out in the forest, not just running around a track or running on the roads. I just ...

With a map tucked under his arm and a compass held out at waist level, Scott Smith of East Rowan High School twists the compass dial until the hollow, arrow-shaped indicator lines up with the red ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Frisco – Missing for four days in a rugged section of the Roosevelt National Forest, Terry and Marion Jones emerged unharmed at the Big South Trailhead to ...

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“OK, start!” calls the man with the clipboard, nodding toward a portable clock. That’s my cue. Compass in hand, I dash out of the starting gate and up a grassy slope to the west of Lake Balboa, on a ...

WEKIWA SPRINGS STATE PARK — Orienteering can be frustrating, especially for a middle-age guy with bad eyes and a bum knee like me. But the organizers of this meet assured me that even an old-timer ...

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Albany Township, is holding a map and compass orienteering workshop Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. at the sanctuary visitor center. It is a beginner’s workshop appropriate for individuals ...

retro style abstract shoot with the compass on a map(Getty Images/iStockphoto/azgek) THURMONT, Md. (AP) — Using a compass and a map, Park Ranger Andrew Regiec led a ...

Global positioning satellite devices and smart phones help folks find their way through the woods, but hikers, hunters and other outdoor explorers still like to carry a map and compass to avoid ...